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POPSholocaust don't worry about history, a lot of kids these days can't read or write
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POPSGPS Tracking Takes AIM at Students Proof public schools are juvenile detention centers and that "free public schooling", as it was called during Civil War Reconstruction has become mandatory institutionalization. Home schooling takes students back from the government which claims authority to hold children captive for their own indoctrination.
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POPS1-child policy has exceptions after China quake Though commonly called a one-child policy, the rules offer a welter of exceptions and loopholes, some of them put into practice because of widespread opposition to the limits. For example, in large parts of rural China, most families are allowed a second-child, especially if the first was a girl. Local officials often have wide discretion on enforcement, a fact that has made the policy susceptible to corruption. Many Chinese have shown interest in adopting earthquake orphans, and Monday's announcement says there are no limits on the number of earthquake orphans a family can adopt. The adoptions, or even a future birth to a family that adopts an orphan, will not face the limitations of the one-child policy. Officials estimated last week that the quake left about 4,000 orphans, but they warned they would make every effort to connect children with other family members.
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POPSThe effect and goal of progressive bias in education Bruce Walker: "The Nazis also warned parents that children who went to religious schools would be discriminated against in employment." "What happened in the 1930s in Nazi Germany, however, was preceded by what happened in Oregon in 1922. The Ku Klux Klan supported and passed the Compulsory Education Law which required that parents send their children to public schools and not private schools. The avowed purpose of this law was to get children "while their minds are plastic" and to turn the child into "a true American." "Many on the Left today see public education as primarily a mechanism to mold children into people who will better fit into the vision that these Leftists have for America. Those tinkerers should know what good company they keep: they are following in the footsteps of Nazi Germany and of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Educational monoculture is an invitation to tyranny."
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POPSIraq Teachers Told to Re-write History--Propaganda They plan to strike over it. This is typical of all wars and reconstruction, to justify everything done. (E.g. the U.S. established government "free schools", now compulsory, as part of Reconstruction after the Civil War)
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POPSBack to Plain English?
Nor is this simply about a neglect of certain types of traditional academic learning. Equally overlooked is the value of practical, hands-on learning or of creativity. Yes, we are about to get new Diplomas in vocation subjects such as engineering, IT, Creative and Media and Health and Beauty. But the government does not describe these as vocational qualifications but prefers to describe them as "academic" qualifications and to stress their A-level equivalence. This may make practical sense in the face of British snobbery towards non-academic qualifications. But it also suggests a lack of confidence in the value of practical education. Professor Pring pointed out, one of the problems with the GNVQs - and a future risk for Diplomas - is that in an attempt to achieve parity with GCSEs and A-levels, students were assessed not so much on what they could ‘do’ but how well they could write about and analyse their ‘doing’. The speaker was Professor Richard Pring, of Oxford University.
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POPSPanamanian School Kids to Learn Chinese - Mandatorily Bravo to Panama. Makes me disgusted that Karl Rove can push the ignorant xenophobic buttons of U.S. society. We can't even get people to turn off American Idol long enough to learn the predominate language of our continent. I presume Panamanian children (who go to school) will be trilingual now. Lazy Americans can't even learn Spanish.
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POPSSchool Attendance and Crime Rates Read much more at the source(s). Those of us who home-school will not be surprised at the findings, but many some people who are sitting on the fence will be enlightened.
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POPSVaccinations are not O.K.!!! Learn some today. Hey, this rhymes. There are several websites that discuss this subject. 1) http://www.drday.com/ 2) http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Health_Care/people_vs_vaccines.htm 3) http://www.whale.to/v/disease2.html 4) http://protect-your-freedom.co.uk/media-mkultra-haarp-drugs-education-dumbing-down-anti-terror-law.html
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POPSChina's population to increase by 200 million in 30 years " According to the plan set out in the report, county and town-level agencies in rural areas should improve their services to better implement family planning policies. Families with one child will be rewarded by the government, and the endowment insurance system in rural areas should be strengthened to improve care for the elderly. The report also calls for improvements to the nine-year compulsory education system, the control of HIV/AIDS and public health services."
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POPSChinesePod Free Language Learning I have been using this site for a while now, the ChinesePod, which they do free podcasts with useful real life Chinese. This helps me augment my other Chinese language lessons. Download to your iPod or listen on your desktop system, etc. Pretty cool deal.
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